Earthquake potential in Boston

[magid]

According to a Globe article, Boston's not prepared, with an estimated 75% of Boston's 100,000 buildings built before 1973, when the seismic building codes were adopted.

What I thought particularly interesting was the map of liquefaction risk in metro Boston; it's quite amazing to see just how much landfill there's been, not just Boston, but along the rivers, too (including Cambridge).

Comments

[hyounpark.livejournal.com]

On the bright side, after this earthquake, I'll practically have oceanfront property over here in Roxbury! Yes, it would come at the cost of thousands of lives, but to make an omelet, you've got to break a few eggs.

Sacrificingly,
Hyoun

[magid.livejournal.com]

Oceanfront property without working utilities, though.

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

Rustic charm.

[bitty.livejournal.com]

Channeling Lex Luthor again, are we?

[hissilliness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Boston's coastline looked very different (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/map_image.pl?data=/home/www/data/gmd/gmd376/g3764/g3764b/ar090300.jp2&x=2476&y=2108&res=0&width=640&height=480&lastres=1) a couple hundred years ago.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it did.

One of the office buildings not far from Boylston T stop has neat pictures in the floor, showing the map of metro Boston through the ages. It's pretty cool.

[arfur]

Just the other week, the guy from the insurance agency practically laughed at me when I said I wanted to include earthquake coverage in my renter's insurance quote.

Mind, I haven't actually gone out and gotten the insurance yet...

[magid.livejournal.com]

Was there much difference in cost by including the earthquake coverage?

[arfur]

the quote was higher than I expected, but in the process of getting it, I realized that this insurance agent wasn't for me, so decided against way too many back-and-forths to get good breakdowns of what each line item really cost me.

[powerfrau.livejournal.com]

Neat. I will be much safer in SF!